Richard is one of my very favorite writers, ever since those first Twilight Zone eps of his. Someday I Am Legend WILL be done correctly. Liked the interview. My experience with discovering Matheson seems identical to Beaks.

Beaks: I like that movie, but I feel like they could maybe take another crack at HELL HOUSE.

Matheson: Oh, I’ve been trying to get them to do that for a long time. I’m trying to talk 20th Century Fox into remaking it and following my book even more [closely]. I was originally going to do it with a producer named Stanley Chase, and it was going to follow my book very closely. I mean, [the 1973 film] didn’t deviate from it that much, but they could have come closer. It was about the time of ultimate censorship, so I had to cut out all of the really raunchy stuff from the book, which I would probably stick back in now for good or for bad.

I feel like I've said something similar around here before but the day I see a Hell House without cuts (that costs more than a million dollars to make) I'll eat my hat.

yeah Harlan wouldn't have been so...complimentary to people who changed his work and it was good...and he certainly wouldn't have called the adaptations of his work that weren't good "dreck", he'd write a 28 page essay about how they screwed him over.

Bloo wrote:yeah Harlan wouldn't have been so...complimentary to people who changed his work and it was good...and he certainly wouldn't have called the adaptations of his work that weren't good "dreck", he'd write a 28 page essay about how they screwed him over.

magicmonkey wrote:Never read any Matheson...yet. Is he better than King?

Matheson has more range as a writer than King, and has penned some rather iconic works in his time ( Hell House/I Am Legend).Matheson would get my vote. King has a tendency to repeat himself.

After a quick wiki search, I discovered quite a bit. I honestly only knew of him in regards to I am Legend (Hadn't known about his Legend of Hell House penning), but having seen Stir of Echoes and What Dreams May Come and now discovering he was the progenitor of those too, well, blimey. It's certainly piqued my interest by about another 180%!